Escape from Taliban

Escape from Taliban
Escape from Taliban
	DVD cover
Directed by	Ujjwal Chatterjee
Written by	Sushmita Banerjee (book A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife); Ujjwal Chatterjee (screenplay); Shubhrajyoti (dialogue)
Produced by	Ashok Khemka; Vijay Nopany
Starring	Manisha Koirala; Nawab Shah
Cinematography	Vivek Banerjee
Edited by	Ujjal Nandi
Music by	Songs:; Babul Bose; Score:; Vanraj Bhatia
Release date	14 February 2003;
Running time	166 minutes
Country	India
Languages	Hindi; Urdu; English
Budget	₹ 3.50 crore
Box office	₹ 1.44 crore

Escape from Taliban is a 2003 Indian film directed by Ujjwal Chatterjee. The film is based on the story A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife by Sushmita Banerjee, who fled Afghanistan in 1995 after six years of living there with her Afghan husband.^[2]

Banerjee, whose book inspired this movie, was shot dead by suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan in September 2013,^[3] because they believed she was "an Indian spy".^[4]

Plot

The story is based on the life of Sushmita Bannerjee, a Bengali Hindu woman who was married to an Afghan businessman in 1989. She moved to Afghanistan in the same year and fled back to India in 1995 to escape the Taliban, who issued a death sentence for her because she refused to abide by their rule on converting to Islam.^[5]

Cast

Manisha Koirala as Sushmita Banerjee / Sayed Kamal
Nawab Shah as Jaanbaaz
Vineeta Malik as Abu
Prithvi Zutshi as Dranai Chacha
Alyy Khan as Abdul Malik
Yusuf Hussain as Colonel Banerjee

Production

The film was shot in Jaisalmer, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Ladakh.^[6]

Music

Lyrics were penned by Mehboob.

Song	Singer
"Ae Jaan-E-Jaan"	Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy
"Titli Si Ud Chali"	Alka Yagnik
"Jeete Hain Yahan"	Kumar Sanu
"Jeete Hain Yahan" (Arabic)	Chorus
"Kahan Se Aate Hain"	Asha Bhosle, Sunidhi Chauhan
"Rimil Baba"	Sadhana Sargam, Babul Supriyo, Sonu Nigam

References

^ ^a ^b "Escape from Taliban – Movie". Box Office India.
^ Chandrika Narayan; Masoud Popalzai (5 September 2013). "Afghan militants target, kill female author, police say". CNN. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
^ "Indian Author Sushmita Banerjee killed by Taliban in Afghanistan". Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
^ "'We Killed Sushmita Banerjee'". The Daily Beast. 14 September 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
^ Jeevan Vasagar. "Direct from Bollywood: Taliban the musical Archived 17 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine." The Guardian. 19 February 2003.
^ "Coventry and Warwickshire Films – Escape from Taliban". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

External links

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[auto-1] "Escape from Taliban – Movie". Box Office India.

[2] Chandrika Narayan; Masoud Popalzai (5 September 2013). "Afghan militants target, kill female author, police say". CNN. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

[3] "Indian Author Sushmita Banerjee killed by Taliban in Afghanistan". Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

[4] "'We Killed Sushmita Banerjee'". The Daily Beast. 14 September 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2025.

[guard-5] Jeevan Vasagar. "Direct from Bollywood: Taliban the musical Archived 17 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine." The Guardian. 19 February 2003.

[6] "Coventry and Warwickshire Films – Escape from Taliban". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

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